On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Stefano Mori wrote: > > On 2009-Jan-09, at 01:24, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: > >> When you really think about it, isn't it strange that anything >> exists at all? > > > A bit like trying to imagine not being alive. It is weird how > difficult it is to truly visualise not being alive, because even as I > imagine the world and other people carrying on without me, I > implicitly feel myself existing as I imagine it. > > Those people are busy killing each other to make the place the way > they imagine it should be, and yet none of us seem to know why > anything should be (exist) anyway. Nor do we know what death is. But > using weapons of death they try to remake what is existing, whilst not > knowing why there is existence nor what is death. > > But this doesn't even feel like it scratches the surface... > > Stefano > > _______________________________________________
I think that's a great analogy, Steano. And I think you strike home exactly the point about killing in the Middle East (and elsewhere, I guess). We can deal out death, but we can't give life back. And we're not even sure of the import of either. I hope the folks in Israel and Palestine can work things out instead of continually escalating from one tragedy of human life to another. Jeff _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
